[TCats]

I’m amazed but also confused. If the donors immune system is in place and accepting the donated liver why isn’t it rejecting the donnee's tissue - i.e., attacking everything but the liver?

[TChris]

I’m amazed but also confused. If the donors immune system is in place and accepting the donated liver why isn’t it rejecting the donnee's tissue - i.e., attacking everything but the liver?

That's a very good question.

It could be that the two immune systems have somehow combined. *shrug*

(I'm not a doctor. I just know how to spell the word. ...sometimes.)

[r9etb]

I’m amazed but also confused. If the donors immune system is in place and accepting the donated liver why isn’t it rejecting the donnee's tissue - i.e., attacking everything but the liver?

Excellent question ... one that I'm sure the docs will be trying hard to answer. If they can figure it out, it will have incredible potential -- a treatment for Type I diabetes, for example.

[Getready]

Do you know if the doc’s have run tests to see if it is
attacking? Maybe we’ll find out in a few years whether
having a foreign immune system or a modified immune
system is worth it for the recipient.